Abstract: A method of background replacement includes: receiving a main image of a scene from a main image sensor and a secondary image of a scene from a secondary image sensor, wherein the main image sensor and secondary image sensor are displaced relative to each other in at least one dimension; performing stereo rectification on the main image and secondary image; inputting the rectified images into a deep neural network, and applying the deep neural network on the rectified images to generate an alpha matting mask for the main image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining a seamless, smooth transition between a Wide field of view (FOV) camera and a scanning Tele camera by correcting prism aberrations, matching Tele and Wide FOVs, localizing the associated Tele FOV, and zooming a Wide frame towards the localized Tele FOV.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices prevent data loss in memory devices. Systems may include a non-volatile memory device that includes a first data unit configured to store data for the non-volatile memory device and associated metadata, and a second data unit configured to store data for the non-volatile memory device and associated metadata, wherein the first data unit and second data unit are configured to alternate storing a most recent version of the data and associated metadata. The systems may also include control circuitry configured to read metadata from the first data unit and the second data unit, identify the first data unit as an inactive data unit based on contents of the first data unit and the second data unit, and perform one or more update operations such that the first data unit is updated and set as an active unit when the update operations are complete.

Abstract: Mobile handheld electronic devices such as smartphones, comprising a Wide camera for capturing Wide images with respective Wide fields of view (FOVW), a Tele camera for capturing Tele images with respective Tele fields of view (FOVT) smaller than FOVW, and a processor configured to stitch a plurality of Wide images into a panorama image with a field of view FOVP>FOVW and to pin a Tele image to a given location within the panorama image to obtain a smart panorama image.

Abstract: System and method for presentation of tissue sensing data being collected from a tissue being measured are presented and configured for on-line as well as for off-line presentation of the tissue sensing data, the system comprising a device configured and operable to display a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprises at least one observation field and is configured to be responsive to the tissue sensing data comprising one or more sensing datum of measured tissue property value, to transform each measured tissue property value into virtual representation in the at least one observation field in the form of a parametric space of two different characteristic parameters of tissue corresponding to the measured tissue property value.

Abstract: A system for generating cold plasma is presented, suitable for use in in-vivo treatment of biological tissue. The system comprising: a control unit connectable to an elongated member at a first proximal end of the elongated member. The elongated member comprises a plasma generating unit at a second distal end thereof and gas and electricity transmission channels extending from said first proximal end towards said plasma generating unit. The control unit comprises a gas supply unit configured to provide predetermined flow rate of selected gas composition through said gas transmission channel and a power supply unit configured to generate selected sequence of high-frequency electrical pulses, typically in mega Hertz range, directed through said electricity transmission channel, thereby providing power and gas of said selected composition to the plasma generating unit for generating cold plasma.

Abstract: A data classification system includes a proxy and a processor. The proxy is configured to intercept transactions that are conducted over a network between clients and a data store. The processor is configured to construct, based on the intercepted transactions, a classification map including a classification of at least some of the data that is stored in the data store into predefined classes.

Abstract: There is provided a system of displaying a degree of underground utility infrastructure complexity in a subregion of a terrain, the system comprising a processing circuitry, the processing circuitry being configured to display, on a display device, two or more subregions of the terrain, the displaying being informative of the degree of underground utility infrastructure complexity of the respective subregion, the degree of underground utility infrastructure complexity of the subregion being assigned based one, at least, number, types, length, width, depth, and/or intersections of underground utilities in the respective subregion.

Abstract: There is provided a digital map product comprising data informative of a location of a zone in a surface area including a subsurface utility infrastructure (SUI), the digital map product being derivative of a method comprising: receiving a digital image of the surface area; identifying a plurality of surface features; for each of the plurality of surface features: calculating an indication of utility location (IUL) from the respective surface feature and location, wherein the IUL is one of: a location of a point of the SUI, a location of a zone of the SUI, a location of a zone from which the SUI is absent, thereby giving rise of a plurality of IULs; and defining a location of a zone including the SUI in accordance with, at least, the plurality of IULs wherein at least one surface feature of the plurality of surface features is a public works surface marking.

Abstract: A data classification system includes a proxy and a processor. The proxy is configured to intercept transactions that are conducted over a network between clients and a data store. The processor is configured to construct, based on the intercepted transactions, a classification map including a classification of at least some of the data that is stored in the data store into predefined classes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process producing useful energy from thermal energy. An overall population of mobile particles confined to a unidirectional flow closed circuit of conducting channels (1-2-3-3?-4-1) is subjected to a conservative or effectively conservative force field. The circuit is thermally insulated with the exception of two non juxtaposed areas a first area (2-3) allowing thermal exchange for heating (Qin) from a warmer environment outside the circuit, a second area (4-1) allowing thermal exchange (Qout) for cooling, as necessary, by a colder environment outside the circuit. The closed circuit is provided with a load (3?-4;) designed to convert the energy it receives from the mobile particles flow to a useful output energy.

Abstract: Techniques for managing a virtual workspace include: generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on a graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in a plurality of data objects; identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in a particular data object of the plurality of data objects; and providing, through the virtual workspace, at least one suggestion comprising a description of data contained in the plurality of data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process producing useful energy from thermal energy. An overall population of mobile particles confined to a unidirectional flow closed circuit of conducting channels (1-2-3-3?-4-1) is subjected to a conservative or effectively conservative force field. The circuit is thermally insulated with the exception of two non juxtaposed areas a first area (2-3) allowing thermal exchange for heating (Qin) from a warmer environment outside the circuit, a second area (4-1) allowing thermal exchange (Qout) for cooling, as necessary, by a colder environment outside the circuit. The closed circuit is provided with a load (3?-4;) designed to convert the energy it receives from the mobile particles flow to a useful output energy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an installation and a process implementing the installation for converting thermal energy available in a given environment into useful energy. The installation and process use pressure differentials between a hot and a cold column of a pressurized fluid to create a continuous flow in a fluid. The flow drives in rotation elements the rotational energy of which is converted to a useful energy.

Abstract: A system and method for providing enhanced accessibility to applications. The system and method capture communication between applications, in which a source application calls, activates, uses the functionality of, or otherwise utilizes a target application. The communication, including the application calls and the relevant context including for example parameters, is captured and the details are analyzed. It is then determined what context or parameters are required for activating the target application. The target application is offered to users of additional applications, in which a context relevant for activating the target applications is determined or created.

Abstract: Techniques for managing a virtual workspace include: generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on a graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in a plurality of data objects; identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in a particular data object of the plurality of data objects; and providing, through the virtual workspace, at least one suggestion comprising a description of data contained in the plurality of data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an installation and a process implementing the installation for converting thermal energy available in a given environment into useful energy. Installation and process by means of pressure differentials between a hot and a cold column of a pressurized fluid, create a continuous flow in a fluid driving in rotation elements the rotational energy of which is converted to a useful energy.

Abstract: A method and system for improving application usage within a computerized application environment, comprising: capturing application navigation data within a computerized application framework, in which an application is called; resolving a target application from the application navigation data; resolving communication parameters or context used for calling the target application; analyzing the communication parameters or contexts used for calling the target application to obtain a calling option for the target application; and providing a user or a second application with a possibility to call the target application, using the calling option.

Abstract: A method, system and device for enabling efficient bandwidth utilization of a multipoint network service over an arbitrary topology network that includes a plurality of network elements (NEs). In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of setting up a full connectivity between the NEs and providing the multipoint network service using the full connectivity, whereby data packets of the multipoint network services are transmitted from a source NE to at least one edge NE through at least one intermediate NE, and whereby data packets that need to be flooded are not replicated or at the source NE. The full connectivity includes an arbitrary combination of a first plurality of point-to-multipoint connections between each source NE and each edge NE and a second plurality of point-to-point connections between each source NE and every edge NE.

Abstract: A method, device, and system for providing multipoint network services over a ring topology network. According to the disclosed method point-to-point connections and point-to-multipoint connections are established between network elements (NEs) providing the same network services. These connections eliminate the need for replicating packets at a source NE and, as a result, the bandwidth utilization is significantly improved. In one embodiment of this invention the multipoint network services provided by the present invention is a virtual private LAN service (VPLS).